Natives are getting restless...

[storch]

Originally posted by Swoop
So....what you're saying is that because 'everyone' thinks you're complete and utter bastards you may as well not disappoint them?

Not that I disagree with you, you understand, being a complete and utter bastard myself......

well from one bastard to another..........

[AquaShrimp]

Originally posted by Shuffler
lol I thought shrimp was American... guess I was wrong.... some comunist country purhaps chinese or hmmm Syria...

You must have never been in the Service.  Everyone hates Washington, even our troops.

[Tiger]

Originally posted by AquaShrimp
Everyone hates Washington

He was a good president, I hate LBJ.

[texasmom]

I was on the phone w/one of our employees when those hits came in at y'alls base. He took off to make sure the rest of the guys were okay.

I'm sorry to hear that news VWE. Thanks again for all that y'all do.

[FrodeMk3]

Originally posted by storch
well from one bastard to another..........

RIP, George C. Scott.

(Sorry, Storch got the line close enough to remind me of the movie.)

[Donzo]

Originally posted by Swoop
This is me playing devil's advocate.  This is not my opinion.


Tiger,

Imagine for a second that your country has been invaded by some other country due to George Bush being a dictator and having thousands of people murdered (and not really cos someone wanted cheap Texan oil) and a few hundred soldiers camped out at the end of your street saying get out within 2 days taking only what you can carry cos your home that you've lived in since childhood is gonna be demolished, that tree you had your first kiss under is gonna be blown to bits and you'll never be able to visit your childhood pets' grave again cos after the bomb hits you wont be able to find it anyway........and afterwards it'll take 3 years for us to get around to building you a cardboard pre-fab house and you'll be living in a tent until then.

How would you feel about it and would you seriously consider joining up with the insurgents?

I think it's been shown that most of the insurgents are not from Iraq, rather they are coming from other places (Syria, Iran, etc.).  

So it's really not a matter of "I'm pissed at the Americans so I'm going to join up with these nut jobs over here to fight them".

Tiger's response to your question said it best....I think that an overwhelming majority of the people in Iraq approve of us getting rid of Sadam and sticking around to get rid of the nut job insurgents.

Here's alternative response to your initial question:

Imagine for a second that your country's evil dictator has been overthrown and removed from power...your country is liberated.  Nut jobs from surrounding countries come in and are eager to fill the void.  They find this next to impossible while the soliders from the country that liberted you are still there.  So they resort to cowardly tactics and make life misserable for the soliders as well as you and your family.  One day you wake up and see the all of the soliders leaving.  You inquire as to why and they reply "Gotta go, you're on your own buddy."  "But what about security for me and my family?" you ask.  "Sorry, I wish we had more time to get your guys trained up but my government demands that we leave" is the response you get.

Now, what would be running through your head?
"Man I long for the days of Sadam....I wish he was still alive."
or
"I can't wait for these nut jobs to finally take control of my country."
or maybe
"Why are they leaving?  Things were getting better with them here."

[Ack-Ack]

Originally posted by Donzo
I think it's been shown that most of the insurgents are not from Iraq, rather they are coming from other places (Syria, Iran, etc.).  

It's been shown to be the opposite.


According to the Daily Telegraph, information from military commanders engaging in battles around Ramadi exposed the fact that out of 1300 suspected insurgents arrested in five months of 2005, none were non-Iraqi, although Colonel John Gronski stated that foreigners provided money and logistical support: "The foreign fighters are staying north of the [Euphrates] river, training and advising, like the Soviets were doing in Vietnam"***
***"US Army admits Iraqis outnumber foreign fighters as its main enemy" Telegraph 03/12/2005


Major General Joseph Taluto, head of the 42nd Infantry Division, said that "99.9 per cent" of captured Insurgents are Iraqi.*
The estimate has been confirmed by the Pentagon's own figures; in one analysis of over 1000 insurgents captured in Fallujah, only 15 were non-Iraqi.**

*Phil Sands, 'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces September 6, 2005
**"The Sunni-Shi'ite power play", Pepe Escobar, Asian Times, Nov 20, 2004


ack-ack

[storch]

I've read that the numbers are about equal.  that there as many non iraqi insurgents as there are iraqi insurgents.  the arabs have a saying which translates to something like my brother and I against my cousin but my cousin my brother and I against you.  this like football to them and killing an american is like a rite of passage it seems.

it is a diificult place to do business in as we all know there millenia of animosities dividing these people which they have no interest in overcoming.  there is no love lost between the arabs and other moslems.  these guys have been wholesale slaughtering each other since prehistory.  that fact may be further refined to there is no love lost between moslem factions.  it's like a baptist arguing with a presbyterian except these guys blow each others families up in the course of the argument.

the wise policy is to use up all their oil and other natural rersources and then allow them to wipe each other out slowly.  once their natural resources are used up the tempo should slacken some.

the people who pull the strings of the global economy have it right.  in due time they will matter little.

[RedTop]

Iraqi , Iranian , Syrian ,.......

Al Qeada , Hamas , Jihadist are us ,......

Bullets from american rifles don't know the differance.....

They probably all look the same when looking thru the sights and they are holding an AK47 or RPG launcher pionted at you.

Does it matter right now where they are from? Shoot em....ALOT....Kill em....everyone.....less of a problem that way and you don't have to feed em in prison camps. The ones that do give up like the wusses they are find out what you can and send em packing....then shoot em when ya get the chance.